Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Topical regions are covered ranging from the Grand Tour and colonialism to the travels of Hadrian in ancient times and Georgia O'Keeffe's journey to the Andes; from Vasari's Neoplatonic voyages to photographing nineteenth-century Japan. The scholars assembled consider both imaginary travel, as well as factual or embellished documentation of voyages. The essays are far-reaching spatially and temporally, but all relate to how art has documented the theme of travel in varying media across time and as illustrated and described by writers, artists, and illustrators. The scope of this volume is far-reaching both chronologically and conceptually, thereby appropriately documenting the universality of the theme to human experience.

Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Key Words Introduction by Sarah Lippert Part I: Travel of Great Import: Culture, Class, and Politics Chapter 1 by Monica Anke Hahn: "Images of Novelties:" The Adorned Body in John Webber's A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing Chapter 2 by Alice Walkiewicz: The Humor of Circumstance: Caricature and the Foreign Tour of the British Middle Class Chapter 3 by Chad Airhart: Tours of the Charleston Renaissance and the Visual Construction of Southern Charm: A Comparison of Local versus Visiting Artists Part II: Travel on a Smaller Scale: Voyages in the Familiar Chapter 4 by Elsie Heung: Elevated in the City: Ashcan Realism and the Visualization of the "El" Train in New York City, 1900-30 Chapter 5 by Anna Piperato: The Palio of Siena: A Journey through Time Chapter 6 by Stephen Cartwright: Quantified Drift Part III: Imaginary Travel and Travel of the Mind Chapter 7 by Gerald Hess: Itinerant Hadrian and Imperial Patronage Belonging to all the World Chapter 8 by Liana De Girolami Cheney: Giorgio Vasari's Planetary Ceiling: A Neoplatonic Voyage Chapter 9 by Sarah Lippert: Going back to the Beginning of Things: The Ancient Origins of the Arts of France Part IV: Trail Blazers: Travel for the Brave Chapter 10 by Gillian Greenhill Hannum: Zaida Ben-Yusuf Chapter 11 by Efram Burke: Beyond the European Grand Tour: The Travels and Related Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach Chapter 12 by Caroline Gillaspie: Women in High Places: Georgia O'Keeffe and Julia Codesido in the Peruvian Andes Conclusion by Sarah Lippert Bibliography Index